Repertoire

Repertoire from the 1997-present

1997 – José Luis Novo, music director

• Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Michael Chertok, piano
• Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius
• Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms
  • Jeff Multer, violin
• Symphony No. 5 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Celebration Overture by Steven Reineke
• Festive Ode for an Academic Occasion by Karel Husa
• The Promise of Living by Aaron Copland
• Crown Imperial March by William Walton
• Overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz
• Thunder and Lightning Polka by Johann Strauss
• Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin
• Symphony no. 91 by Joseph Haydn
• Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber

1998

• Moldau by Bedřich Smetana
• A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms
• Ach, ich fuhls from Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Audrey Luna, soprano
• Scheherezade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Evocacion from Iberia by Isaac Albéniz
• The Planets by Gustav Holst
• Cello Concerto by Edward Elgar
  • Steven Shumway, cello
• Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss
• Violin Concerto no. 4 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Marion Peraza, violin
• Piano Concerto no. 1 by Frédéric Chopin
  • Christina Enniking, piano
• Piano Concerto no. 1 by Sergei Prokofiev
  • John Nimis, piano
• An American in Paris by George Gershwin

1999

• Finlandia by Jean Sibelius
• Piano Concerto no. 1 by Franz Liszt
• Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral” by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Crown Imperial March by William Walton
• Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst
• Selections from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev
• Finale from Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky
• Viola Concerto by Béla Bartók
  • Mary Harris, viola
• Symphony no. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra by Gioachino Rossini
• Piano Concerto no. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Steven Estep, piano
• Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber
  • Jenna Smith, soprano
• Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky

2000

• Symphony no. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Concerto for Flute by Carl Nielsen
• Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Concerto for Violoncello by Antonín Dvořák
• Bolero by Maurice Ravel
• Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland
• Country Band March by Charles Ives
• Les Nuits d’Ete by Hector Berlioz
• Symphony in D major by Juan Arriago
• Alegrias by Roberto Gerhard
• Clarinet Concerto in A by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Richard Stolzman, clarinet
• Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner
• Dances of Galanta by Zoltán Kodály
• Ghosts of Pangea by Michael Colgrass
• Violin Concerto no. 5 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Harvey Thurmer, violin
• Suite no. 1 by Igor Stravinsky
• Petite Suite by Albert Roussel
• Overture to Die Fledermaus by Richard Strauss

2001 – Jaime Morales-Matos, conductor

• Piano Concerto no. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Siok Lian Tan, piano
• Symphony no. 9 by Dmitri Shostakovich

2002 – Ricardo Averbach, music director

• Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms
• Symphony no. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Overture to The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Serenade for Winds by Richard Strauss
• Concerto Grosso no. 2 by Ernest Bloch
• Symphony no. 2 by Alexander Borodin
• Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein
• Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian
• Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten
• Concerto for Violoncello by Antonín Dvořák
  • Ellen Nettleton, cello
• Violin Concerto no. 2 by Sergei Prokofiev
  • Seth Gangwer, violin
• Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel
  • Vladimir Shubin, piano
• Suite no. 2 from Three Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla

2003

• Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz
• Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz
• Les Nuits d’Ete by Hector Berlioz
  • Sonya Headlam, soprano
• Selections from Messiah by George Handel
• Suite no. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe by Maurice Ravel
• Symphony no. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn
• Suite from Gayne by Aram Khachaturian
• Waltz from Masquerade by Aram Khachaturian
• Rachenitsa by Petko Staynov
• Les Preludes by Franz Liszt
• Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra by Ralph Vaughan-Williams
  • Laura Ross, oboe
• Violin Concerto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • Ruzanna Sargsyan, violin
• Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms

2004

• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn
• Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Mozart
• A La Nanigo by Mitchell Peters
• Overture to La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini
• Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
• Ballet Suite no. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Judas Maccabaeus by George Handel
• Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber
• Nanie, op. 82 by Johannes Brahms
• Andante Cantabile from String Quartet no. 1  by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Concertino for Trombone and String Orchestra by Lars-Erik Larsson
• The Blue Bells of Scotland by Arthur Willard Pryor
• Symphony no. 2, op. 36 in D major by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev
• Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by Jacques Ibert
• Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky

2005

• Cosi fan Tutte by Wolfgang Mozart
• Overture to Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner
• Symphony no. 9 by Antonín Dvořák
• Symphony no. 5  by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Aram Khachaturian
• Two Excerpts from The Light in the Wilderness by Dave Brubeck
• Upon This Rock by Dave Brubeck
• Olympic Fanfare by John Williams
• The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns
• Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, op. 85 by Edward Elgar
• Concerto for Cello and Orchestra no. 2, op. 22 by Camille Saint-Saëns
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1, op. 23 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

2006

• Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
• Symphony no. 4 by Johannes Brahms
• St. Paul’s Suite by Gustav Holst
• Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra by Ney Rosauro
• Serenata by Alberto Nepomuceno
• Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók
• Suite Antiga by Alberto Nepomuceno
• Concertino for Trombone and Brass Quintet by Jörg Duda
• Symphony no. 9 in D major by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Concertino for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Feruccio Busoni
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major by Ravel
• Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra by George Gershwin
• Variations on a Roccoco Theme, op. 33 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (arr. by Maurice Ravel)

2007

• The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Mozart
• Romeo and Juliet Fantasy by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • David Kim, violin
• Scheherezade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Star Wars Medley by John Williams
• Anvil Chorus from Il Travatore by Giuseppe Verdi
• Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
• Pilgrims Chorus from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
• Arrival of the Guest at Wartenburg from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
• Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 10 by Sergei Prokofiev
  • Amanda Collins, piano
• Piano Concerto no. 5, op. 73 by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Hsiu Ying Lee, piano

2008

• Peer Gynt Suite no. 1 by Edvard Grieg
• Symphony no. 8 by Antonín Dvořák
• Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten
• William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini
• Symphony no. 9 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Cello Concerto in a minor, op. 129 by Robert Schumann
  • Efe Baltacigil, cello
• Concerto for viola by William Walton
  • Kate Wilkin, viola
• Trombone Concerto by Henri Tomasi
  • Brad Wick, trombone
• Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland

2009

• Lothlórien from The Lord of the Rings Rahman
• Bombay Theme by A.R. Rahman
• Jaage Hain from Guru by A.R. Rahman
• Clasiqueando con Ruben by Juan de Marcos González
• Symphony no. 1 by Johannes Brahms
• Lieutenant Kije Suite op. 60 by Sergei Prokofiev
• Lincoln Portrait Aaron Copland
• Ragam Ranjani by G. Roger Davis
• Tahiti-trot by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn
•  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Gleb Ivanov, piano
• Der Schwanendreher: Movement I by Paul Hindemith
  • Thomas McDonald, viola
• Premiere Rhapsodie by Claude Debussy
  • Cody Grabbe, clarinet
• Piano Concerto no. 2 in g minor, op. 22 movement I by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Carolyn Lo May Yeeng, piano
• Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi

2010

• Lento by Lazar Nikolov
• Symphony no. 5 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• American Suite by Morton Gould
• Piano Concerto in a minor by Robert Schumann
  • Amaldo Cohen, piano
• Romeo and Juliet, Suite 2 by Sergei Prokofiev
• Overture to Iphigenia en Aulide by Christoph Gluck (altered by Richard Wagner)
• Moldau by Bedřich Smetana
• The Insects’ Martyrdom by Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Gypsy Airs from Ziguenerweisen by Pablo Sarasate
  • Daniel Guedes, violin
• Daphnis et Chloe, Suite no. 2 by Maurice Ravel
• Che faro from Orfeo by Christoph Gluck
  • Daniel Moody, soloist
• Svegliatevi nel core from Guillo Cesare by George Handel
  • Daniel Moody, soloist
• Près des remparts de Séville by George Bizet
  • Emily Moses, soloist
• En vain, pour éviter  George Bizet
  • Emily Moses, soloist
• Piano Concerto in a minor, op. 16 Movement 1 by Edvard Grieg
  • Jessica Hoffman, piano
• Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (arr. by Maurice Ravel)
• Danzon no. 2 by Arturo Márquez
• Lothlorien by A.R. Rahman
• Dil Se Re by A.R. Rahman
• Maa Tujhe Salaam by A.R. Rahman   
• Clasiqueando con Ruben by Juan de Marcos Gonzales
• Concerto for Trombone by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Nitzan Haroz, soloist
• Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla
• Symphony no. 1 by Vasily Kalinnokov
• Slavonic Dance op. 46 no. 1 by Antonín Dvořák
• Slavonic Dance op. 72 no. 2 by Antonín Dvořák
• Scherzo Fantastique by Josef Suk
• Totentanz by Franz Liszt
  • Michael Chertok, piano
• Polovstian Dance from Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin
• Double Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon by Georg Telemann
  • Andrea Ridilla, oboe
  • Christin Schillinger, bassoon
• Symphony no. 2 by Johannes Brahms
• Concerto for Bassoon in e minor by Antonio Vivaldi
  • Ray Jacinto, bassoon
• Concerto no. 2 for Horn and Orchestra by Richard Strauss
  • David Locke, French horn
• Coriolan Overture by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel
• Song of the Black Swan by Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Mambo from West Side Story Bernstein

2012

• A Girl’s Garden from Frostiana by Randall Thompson
• Waltz from Masquerade by Aram Khachaturian
• Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst
• The God Who Gave Us Life from The Testament of Freedom by Randall Thompson
• Miami University Alma Mater by Raymon H. Burke (arr. James Lentini)
• Trial by Jury by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
• The Face on the Barroom Floor by Henry Mollicone
• Trouble in Tahiti Leonard Bernstein
• Spring Festival Overture by Li Huanzhi
• Symphony no. 9 in e minor, op. 95  “From the New World” by Antonín Dvořák
• Mars, the Bringer of War from The Planets by Gustav Holst
• Um a zero by Pixinguinha

2013

• Spring Festival Overture by Li Huanzhi
• Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto by Cheng Gang and He Zhan Hao
• The Yi Meng Folk Song by Chao Wen Qin
• The Spring of Xin Jiang by Ma Yao Zhong
• Happiness at Sunrise by Ma Yao Zhong
• Concerto no. 1 for Cello and Orchestra, op. 107 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Alexander Nevsky, Cantata op. 78 by Sergei Prokofiev
• Clarinettino by Ondřej Kukal
• Parsifal: Good Friday Spell by Richard Wagner
• Three Lieder op. 27 by Richard Strauss
• Piano Concerto no. 2 in c minor, op.18 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky/Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3 by Richard Wagner
• Rhapsody on Gabriel’s Theme by Glen Roger Davis
• Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture by Mikhail Glinka

2014

• Serenade in E-flat major, op. 7 by Richard Strauss
• Requiem in d minor by Wolfgang Mozart
• Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra by Launy Grondahl
• Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op.56 by Johannes Brahms
• Les nuits d’été by Hector Berlioz
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 35 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Overture to William Tell by Gioachino Rossini
• Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 43 by Jean Sibelius
• Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
• Leonore Overture no.3 op. 72 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Piano Concerto in a minor, op. 16 by Edvard Grieg

2015

• Leonore Overture no. 3, op. 72 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Symphony no. 1 in f minor, op. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Dum Spiro by Romain Paillot
• Fanfares Liturgiques by Henri Tomasi
• Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by Aram Khachaturian
• Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Cecil Forsyth
• Concerto no. 3 for Piano and Orchestra, op. 37 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Russian Eastern Overture, op. 36 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Aram Khachaturian
• Symphony no. 6 in b minor, op. 74 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

2016

• Spring Festival Overture by Huanzhi Li
• Spring of Snow Mountain by Shang’e Fan
• Song of the Moon from Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák
• The Yao Nationality Dance Music by Tieshan Liu
• The Yi Meng Folk Song by Wenqun Chao
• Happy Saliha by Hengqian Zhu
• Xi Yang Yang by Mingyuan Liu
• Blooming Flowers and Full Moon by Daijun Huang
• The Spring of Xin Jiang by Xiaoxian Ma
• Horse Racing by Haihuai Huang
• Nessun Dorma from Turandot by Giascomo Puccini
• Happiness at Sunrise by Unkai Bao
• Symphony no. 3 in eb major, op. 55 “Eroica” by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Chimera by Anthony DiLorenzo

2017

• Slava! A Political Overture by Leonard Bernstein
• Cantata Sueños by Arturo Márquez
• Alas (a Malala) by Arturo Márquez
• Danzón no. 2 by Arturo Márquez
• Care Selve from Atalanta by George Handel
  • Andrea Davis, soprano
• Ruhe Sanft from Zaide by Wolfgang Mozart
• Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss from Giuditta by Franz Lehár
  • Andrea Davis, soprano
• Arcade Variations by Per Bloland
• The Swan from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns
• Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise, op. 26 by Franz Doppler
  • Brianna Searing, flute
• Piano Concerto in a minor,  op. 16: allegro molto moderato by Edvard Grieg
  • Nathan Rayens, piano
• Capriccio Espanol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Waltz from Masquerade by Aram Khatchaturian
• Cello Concerto no. 1 by Joachim Raff
  • Cole Tutino, cello
• Symphony no. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Suite for Strings by John Rutter
• Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Maurice Ravel)

2018

• Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major, op. 15 by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Yovcho Krushev, piano
• Symphony no. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler
• Bolero by Maurice Ravel
• Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
• Trumpet Concerto by Alexander Arutiunian
  • Charles Gately, trumpet
• Oboe Concerto, op. 45 by Eugene Goossens
  • Jacob Hill, oboe
• Three Black Kings by Duke Ellington
  • Jeremy Long, saxophone
  • Timothy Dennison, piano
  • Eva Reyes Smith, bass
• Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
• Vocalise by Yovcho Krushev
  • Rob Schwimmer, theremin
• Love Scene from Vertigo
  • Rob Schwimmer, theremin
• Spellbound Piano Concerto
  • Siok Lian Tan, piano
  • Rob Schwimmer, theremin
• Princess Mononoke by Joe Hisaishi
• Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt
• The Gadfly Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich

2019

• Masquerade Suite by Aram Khachaturian
• Piano Concerto in F by Glen Roger Davis
  • Michael Chertock, piano
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Allegro by Samuel Barber
  • Jubilee Chen, violin
• Piano Concerto no. 3 in c minor, op. 37; Allegro con brio by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Pui Yee Lee, piano
• Piano Concerto no. 2 in c minor, op. 18 Allegro Scherzando by Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Nathan Rayens, piano
• Symphonic Games by João Guilherme Ripper